Korean Maxims and Proverbs Document 4

MAXIMS AND PROVERBS OF OLD KOREA: ROLE OF THE SORCERESS

1. Beat the drum of a sorceress after her dance is over.

2. A sorceress invited to dance out the devil, a monk to chant for the dead.

3. Waiting for mother who has gone to a sorceress’ dance.

4. Rather watch the sorceress’ dance and eat the cakes.

5. Although the mother-in-law wants the sorceress to come and dance, she does not like to see

her eldest daughter-in-law dance.

6. It is like a house in which the sorceress’s dance is just over.

7. A sorceress cannot dance out her own devils nor can a blind fortune-teller tell the day of his

own death.